Institutional Streams, Logics and Fields

  • Giuseppe Delmestri

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Abstract

Ideology is discussed as the missing link between material practices and symbolic constructions in defining institutional logics. Institutional streams are proposed as disembedded institutional logics traveling as ideologies that are taken for granted. They affect specific (inter)action contexts on a global level providing institutional entrepreneurs and workers with symbolic elements to translate into local institutional arrangements. Such translations can give rise to institutional change. Local translation of nonlocal elements advances the interests of the elites of the “sending” institutional context, as well as it may advance those of the receiving one. Dominant transnational streams may or may not coalesce to form a global world order.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-144
Number of pages30
JournalResearch in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Fields of science

  • 502030 Project management
  • 506 Political Science
  • 502044 Business management
  • 502014 Innovation research
  • 502043 Business consultancy
  • 502052 Business administration
  • 502012 Industrial management

JKU Focus areas

  • Social and Economic Sciences (in general)

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